Birthday poem · May 6Start of Summer, the 7th solar term: summer begins.

Birth character

舟 zhōu · boat

舟 is a picture of a small boat.

輕舟已過萬重山

“My skiff has left ten thousand mountains far away.” — Li Bai, ‘Leaving Baidi City at Dawn’

“For Wang Lun” 贈汪倫

李白乘舟將欲行lǐ bái chéng zhōu jiāng yù xíngI, Li Bai, sit aboard a ship about to go,
忽聞岸上踏歌聲hū wén àn shàng tà gē shēngWhen suddenly on shore footsteps and songs o'erflow.
桃花潭水深千尺táo huā tán shuǐ shēn qiān chǐThe Lake of Peach Blossom is a thousand fathoms deep,
不及汪倫送我情bù jí wāng lún sòng wǒ qíngBut not so deep as the friendship Wang Lun and I keep.

Li Bai 李白 · Tang dynasty · 701–762 · seven-character verse

English translation by Poetune.

Wang Lun sings Li Bai off: the peach pool is deep, but not as deep as friendship.

Solar term: Start of Summer.

Year of birth shows that year's lunar date and solar term

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